Film: Welcome to Pine Hill Director: Keith Miller Cast: Shannon Harper, Mary Myers, Landon Van Soest, Jaiden Kaine, Keith Miller, Katie Vitale ?The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.? John F. Kennedy Reality… Read more »
?Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.? Mason Cooley Billy Martin is a percussionist, filmmaker, music producer, composer, sculptor, visual artist, and carpenter and is part of the groundbreaking jazz trio Martin, Medeski & Wood. His latest musical production (due out this month) is Road to Jajouka, a remix tribute to… Read more »
A Singular Devotion to Liberated Means of Expression ?Whether It’s music or films or my drawings, I take the same approach: I improvise. I do have conceptual ideas I try to realize, but I think the best stuff comes out of improvisation. It comes from the same place, the same creative part of myself in… Read more »
Feast of the Foolish (USA) The Runner (Germany) The Fisher (USA) If, as Francesco Casetti so eloquently states, film is a way of negotiating reality, then you’d think independent film shorts would represent a series of asides, the whispers and mumblings of courtroom visitors. Such is not always the case, however. In fact, we find… Read more »
Album: The Road to Jajouka: A Benefit Album (planned release: September 2013) Artists: The Master Musicians of Jajouka, led by Bachir Attar and featuring various musicians including Medeski Martin & Wood, John Zorn, Flea, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Billy Martin, Marc Ribot, Ornette Coleman, Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead), DJ Logic, Falu, Howard Shore, and the… Read more »
Album: Magic Malik, TranzDenied (to be released September 12, 2013) ?Primitive people attributed to sound a divine origin. It became surrounded with religious respect, and reserved for the priests, who thereby enriched their rites with a new mystery. Thus was developed the conception of sound as something apart, different from and independent of life. The… Read more »
?In the midst of darkness, I am a star And in the throat of the oppressor, I am a thorn I am a blaze of fire blown by the wind I am the soul of those who never forgot I am the voice of the martyrs I melt iron into clay And turn it into… Read more »
